More from William, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt

  1. My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can.
  2. We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything...France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime…
  3. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither a…
  4. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slave…
  5. It must cut up Liberty by the root and poison the Fountain of Publick Security; and who that has an English heart can ever be weary of asse…
  6. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.
  7. When Trade is at stake it is your last Retrenchment; you must defend it, or perish.
  8. The distinction between legislation and taxation is essential to liberty.

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